Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unavailable yesterday to respond to the specific counter proposal, but said in a recent interview. "I don't think it would be appropriate if a board of university presidents taking action for example to uphold or maintain academic standards be overruled by the vote of a convention primarily made up of coaches and athletic directors...
Even granting for a moment the last point, the "pragmatists" are wrong. This Administration's policy toward the Philippines runs counter to our interests. In the long run, it will prove disastrous...
...sight and sound of him drive teen-age girls wild. All through the South and West, Elvis is packing theaters, fighting off shrieking admirers, disturbing parents, puckering the brows of psychologists, and filling letters-to-the-editor columns with cries of alarm and, from adolescents, counter-cries of adulation...
...more concern to non-Catholics are the documents that clearly define the end of the church's Counter Reformation hostility to other faiths. One is the much rewritten constitution On the Church in the Modern World, which attempts to express the mind of Catholicism on such matters of common concern as peace and war, world poverty, industrialism, social and economic justice. A decree On Ecumenism, committing Catholicism to work for Christian unity, for the first time acknowledges Protestant bodies as churches that share God's grace and favor. The declaration On Religious Liberty states the right...
...thus a statement of the deepest disappointment: the best of all worlds was not possible, therefore the worst must be probable. But if most people find it unhealthy to dwell in dreamland, very few people wish to believe in wholly dark visions either, not only because such visions run counter to human buoyancy, bul because one cannot stare indefinitely at broken objects without feeling an urge to mend them. History encompasses neither utopia nor hell. It squats like a bear and dares the world to move it No visions of light or darkness are necessary. Only a steady concentration...